Writing a way through grief

Mark Lawson: Books on bereavement are a rare mix of personal and universal – cathartic for both reader and writer

I was a ‘good anorexic’

At 14, Constance Barter was running 25km and swimming 6km every week. But it was only to mask the fact that she was starving herself. Anorexia nearly killed her but, three years on and healthy, she talks about her experience

How I got caught in the single trap

A year after a painful break-up, Hannah Booth finds out if a relationship counsellor can detect a pattern in her past partners … and what predictions he has for the future

Autism: A healing, not a cure

Rupert Isaacson believes riding has transformed his autistic son. Now he wants others to benefit from his experience. But is it too good to be true?

Family under the microscope

Why are female undergraduates so much more likely to suffer from psychological distress than male students?

Playing it too safe?

Parents banned from sports days, children prevented from flying kites, three-legged races outlawed. Health and safety gone mad, or media hysteria, asks Emine Saner

Relationships: Not just for Christmas

Editorial: The welfare state was developed to ensure material needs were met, but its architects presumed that emotional and psychological needs would be met by family and community. That is not always so

A dad from day one

Khaled Diab: No argument against a father's presence in the delivery room will convince me that I should not have witnessed my son's birth

The cold hand of fate

There aren't many occupational hazards in my line of work, admits Tim Dowling, but that doesn't mean I don't suffer for my art